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 Post subject: I Really Can't Believe it
PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:25 am 
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I have been scammed in the worst way. This is such a digusting and feeling of violation I can't even expain. I am a wedding planner and received a check via UPS. I took it to the bank and you know the rest. The next day the bank called me asking me all kinds of questions about the check I told them who sent it to me how I received it blah blah blah. Since then my acct has been closed and risk management put an alert on me...I would cuss but this is a public forum....I am totally embarrased and now I'm just bracing myself for the fallout. I spoke to the secret service and they were wonderful but my local police dept has been anything but helpful, kind or concerned they would not file a report due to the fact that the UPS came from London. I'm a scam virgin so if anyone can offer help please do so. I've contacted yahoo and reported the email address, I printed the phone records, I also am holding onto the UPS envelop like it's gold because I just know this will not go away quickly and I'm ready for the fight


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Did you wire way the money?


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I bet the scammer claimed he was interested in having his wedding planned, and the check sent was to cover the expense for this but the amount sent was in excess for some obscure financial reason, so the difference needed to be sent back to him or his associates and he would even include a fee for your trouble.

This seems to be the new tactic in scamming. They find out what you do and target you on that basis. This is how I was scammed. I am a tutor; the guy claimed he wanted a tutor for his daughter and asked me all kinds of details about my background, experience, and scheduling in order to make himself seem legitimite.


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Regalmann wrote:
I bet the scammer claimed he was interested in having his wedding planned, and the check sent was to cover the expense for this but the amount sent was in excess for some obscure financial reason, so the difference needed to be sent back to him or his associates and he would even include a fee for your trouble.

This seems to be the new tactic in scamming. They find out what you do and target you on that basis. This is how I was scammed. I am a tutor; the guy claimed he wanted a tutor for his daughter and asked me all kinds of details about my background, experience, and scheduling in order to make himself seem legitimite.


not a new tactic, a very old tactic


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for clarification . . . the overall story is the same one they have been doing for years, but yes, it does seem to go through the "phases" of why type of merchandise or service they are trying to hit up . . . used cars, live stock, home businesses, wedding planners . . . they just keep changing where they find their next victim.

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so the premise changes, not the tactic


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correct . . . that is what we have been seeing for years

We were hit in 2002 while selling a used car, and I personally contacted sites that sold used cars and asked them to put up warnings. I made contacts/firends with people who owned/operated sites that had message boards that talked about used cars (sales, shows and restoration) and got the word out to these places that this scam was going on. Once enough people knew about it in the car circles, we saw an increase in scam emails to people selling show dogs or horses . . . then it was music equiptment . . . then the door really opened up as Craigslist got big and we saw the Roommate/Rental scams and work at home scams grow . . . oh, and the Dating/Romance scams were always in there too.

They find a site with people that have something in common, come up with a "story" and then send it out to everyone. Even though these scams start out differently (car for sale, looking for a roommate) they all come back to someone sending a counterfeit cashier's check or money order . . . that is why I think there needs to be more focus and push on educating the public on the fact that cashier's checks and money orders are NOT as good as cash in hand, since that is the one common link that all of these scams come back to.

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